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DOE selects first companies for nuclear launch pad
The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the National Reactor Innovation Center have announced their first selections for the Nuclear Energy Launch Pad: three companies developing microreactors and one developing fuel supply.
The four companies—Deployable Energy, General Matter, NuCube Energy, and Radiant Industries—were selected from the initial pool of Reactor Pilot Program and Fuel Line Pilot Program applicants, the two precursor programs to the launch pad.
R. Fiebig, A. Krüger
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 81 | Number 2 | June 1982 | Pages 291-298
Technical Note | doi.org/10.13182/NSE82-A20090
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A short description of the reactor dynamics program KINE is given. The KINE code is a one-dimensional code solving the time-dependent neutron diffusion equations in a two-group representation, taking into account six groups of delayed neutron precursors, one heating channel composed of fuel, canning, and a coolant region in which boiling may occur. Special attention is given to radial averaging of coolant density and fuel temperature in a core in which partial boiling can exist. The method of solution is a modified backward extrapolation procedure. Stationary starting conditions are achieved by adjustment of control rod position or liquid poison concentration.